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Add an Essay Question

Author a new essay question to use in your activity. Essay questions must be manually graded.

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Question editing and authoring is not available for all activities.

  1. Open the activity editor.

    To do this:

    Do this:

    Edit an activity on the learning path

    Click Activity context menu › Edit activity title and content.

    Edit an activity from the Activity Bank

    1. Click + Activity › Activity › Add from Activity Bank.
    2. Click an activity.
    3. Click Edit.

    Create a new activity

    1. Click + Activity › Activity › Create New.
    2. Click either Create Activity or Create Activity with Question Pools.

  2. Click + Create Question.

  3. Click Essay.

  4. Click an essay type.

    • Essay with plain text
    • Essay with plain text (German)
    • Essay with plain text (Italian)
    • Essay with plain text (French)
    • Essay with plain text (Spanish)

  5. Enter your essay prompt in Compose question.

  6. Details
    • Enter feedback for the entire question in Overall feedback.
    • Enter an example of a correct response in Sample answer.

  7. Click Preview to preview your question.

  8. Click Save to add your question to your activity.